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Reading Borough Council

… the last six years, so although energy use in kWh has decreased by nearly 50% since 2008/9, spend on energy has remained relatively stable. Carbon emissions reduction over the last 10 years has mainly been achieved through reductions across the building and street lighting estate. Reduction in building energy use has accounted for nearly three quarters of the total emissions reduction, whilst…

… on the actions set out in the Carbon Plan 2015-20 to achieve a carbon emission reduction target of 50% by 2020, against the 2008/9 baseline. Reading has a strong track record on carbon emissions reduction, being amongst the top ten boroughs in the Country for reductions since 2005, totalling 228kT CO2 or 52% of Reading’s total reductions. In the latest year for which data is available (2018/19), Reading…

… street lighting changes are credited with 20% of the total emissions savings, as illustrated in Figures 3.2 & 3.3 below. Figure 3.2: breakdown of RBC emissions reduction achieved over the last decade Figure 3.3: change in RBC emissions by source since 2008/09 Building elec 55%Building gas 19% Building oil <1% Buildingfugitive -1% street lighting 20% Fleet diesel 3% Fleet…

… petrol <1 car club <1% business mileage 2% % of total reduction - 1,000 2,000 3,000 4,000 5,000 6,000 7,000 8,000 9,000 10,000 Carbon emissions per sector 2008/9 2015/16 2018/19 Classification: OFFICIAL Appendix 3: DRAFT RBC CORPORATE CARBON PLAN 2020-25 8 | P a g e Classification: OFFICIAL Areas where the most significant progress in reducing emissions has been…

… harvested requiring us to reach higher for future reductions. To guide us we have structured this Carbon Plan around the actions set out by the Committee for Climate Change in its July 2019 report ‘Reducing UK emissions: Progress Report to Parliament’. This identifies four key themes over the next five years to drive further and deeper carbon emissions reductions, and by adopting these we can…